Michele Kang walks purposefully to the press conference table at the Landmark Hotel. Her diamond earrings and bracelets shimmer beneath the chandelier, like a portal about to transport London City Lionesses, the lowest-ranked of Korean-American businesswoman Kang’s three women’s football teams, into this brave new world. The vehicle to get there? Former Paris Saint-Germain coach Jocelyn Precheur, who last summer took PSG to the semi-finals of the Champions League, and forward Kosovare Asllani, a double Olympic silver medallist, Women’s Super League (WSL) winner with Manchester City and now City Lionesses’ marquee signing.
It has been a busy week or so for Kang, with one of her other clubs, the NWSL side Washington Spirit, having unveiled quadruple-winning Barcelona manager Jonatan Giraldez as their manager a day earlier (Kang missed his press conference to be in London).
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In the fittingly-named Empire room, Kang reels off London City’s latest news as though delivering a bulletin. There is Asllani’s arrival, then Precheur’s on a three-year deal, then the news Kang has purchased the Lionesses’ 28-acre training ground and enlisted the architectural team behind the Tottenham…
